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Team and governance

Two directors, both on the public register, and the governance a funder checks. Policies on request.

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Two directors. That is the permanent team.

Both are named at Companies House and both carry legal responsibility for the company.

Rizwan Wadan, founder and director. Fifteen years on British sets in high-end drama and feature film. He leads industry engagement and commissioned work, and sets the technical standard the training is taught to.

Nina Karwalska, co-founder and director. She leads faith inclusion, community partnership and participant welfare, and she answers the questions a family asks before a daughter spends three days on a stage.

A board of two is thin and we say so. We are recruiting an independent non-executive director and building an advisory council.

Three women stand round a camera on a prep bench, two with uncovered hair and one in a hijab, talking through the build; flight cases and a lens chart wall behind them.
Prep bench.

Governance, said plainly

A community interest company, not a registered charity. Our regulator is the Office of the Regulator of Community Interest Companies.

We file annual accounts and a community interest report at Companies House, where anyone can read them. Surplus cannot be distributed. The asset lock is the point of the structure.

Policies are board-approved and reviewed annually: safeguarding, welfare, consent and media permissions, faith-literate practice, data protection, safer recruitment, complaints and health and safety. Ask for any by name at team@screensisters.org.uk.

Everyone working with participants is recruited to a written role description, checked at the level the law allows, inducted and supervised. The data-protection work is completed before applications open.

Safeguarding

Tell Nina Karwalska at team@screensisters.org.uk, or any practitioner on the day. You do not need to be sure and you do not need evidence. If somebody is in immediate danger, 999 comes first.